This brings back fond memories of my Uncle Mike and Aunt Julie from my distant youth (my mother's aunt and uncle actually, which I guess makes them my great aunt and uncle). We are talking the mid to late 1960s here.

Aunt Julie was a firm member of some fundamentalist reform church group, and Uncle Mike was just a regular guy working at a BC saw mill. Aunt Julie ran a very strict home, but Uncle Mike had a shed out back...

It took me a few years to catch on to it all, aided by my father was totally in Uncle Mike's confidence. Good old Mike grew tobacco behind the shed, and made beer in it. I knew I had hit the big time when I was invited out to the shed with Mike and my Dad to (officially) see some new tool Uncle Mike had bought. There we shared hand rolled cigars,and home brewed beer. They both made me want to choke, but there was no way I was going to admit this. Ah, memories.
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Back in Pres. Carters day he had a brother called Billy but he made Beer callled "Billy Beer" I was wondering if anyone ever had some? One told me it stunk and another said it was OK but rather have a local beer.

Back in Pres. Carters day he had a brother called Billy but he made Beer callled "Billy Beer" I was wondering if anyone ever had some? One told me it stunk and another said it was OK but rather have a local beer.

"Billy Beer" was a short run canning of a rather large well known for making CHEAP beer company. I do not recall the name of the brewery, but by all accounts there was nothing special about this beer. However the cans of it were known to sell for (last I heard.. around 1980?) for around $100 each, due
to the marketing.

When it was on supermarket shelves it was very cheap, but did have the endorsement of then president Jimmy Carter's rather embarassing alcoholic brother.

Billy Beer was a beer first made in the United States of America in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. It was promoted by the younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter. The beer was produced by Cold Spring Brewing, West End Brewing, and Pearl Brewing Company

Written on each can were these words of endorsement, which were followed by Billy Carter's signature:
Brewed expressly for and with the personal approval of one of America's all-time great beer drinkers - Billy Carter.
I had this beer brewed up just for me. I think it's the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it, too.

After Billy Beer ceased production, advertisements appeared in newspapers offering to sell Billy Beer cans for several hundred to several thousands of dollars each, attempting to profit from their perceived rarity. However, since the cans were actually produced in the millions, the real value of a can ranged from 50 cents to one dollar in 1981.
Billy Beer was also featured on an episode of the reality series Auction Kings, where an appraiser deemed a case of unopened Billy Beer to be worthless; however, at the featured auction, the case was sold for $100.

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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Billy Beer was a beer first made in the United States of America in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. It was promoted by the younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter. The beer was produced by Cold Spring Brewing, West End Brewing, and Pearl Brewing Company

Written on each can were these words of endorsement, which were followed by Billy Carter's signature:
Brewed expressly for and with the personal approval of one of America's all-time great beer drinkers - Billy Carter.
I had this beer brewed up just for me. I think it's the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it, too.

After Billy Beer ceased production, advertisements appeared in newspapers offering to sell Billy Beer cans for several hundred to several thousands of dollars each, attempting to profit from their perceived rarity. However, since the cans were actually produced in the millions, the real value of a can ranged from 50 cents to one dollar in 1981.
Billy Beer was also featured on an episode of the reality series Auction Kings, where an appraiser deemed a case of unopened Billy Beer to be worthless; however, at the featured auction, the case was sold for $100.

Straight fermentation will not produce a viable fuel, you need to distil it to get close to 100% alcohol - the best you can hope for from the fermentation is about 20-25%
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

For a fuel? a bad batch once distilled should work well, with a wide variety of bases.

Would be better if cars just drove on trash, like in that movie Back to the future. You get rid of your trash and you have cheap fuel. I guess that's something for the movies, although you never know, with all the stuff they invent these days...
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For a fuel? a bad batch once distilled should work well, with a wide variety of bases.

Would be better if cars just drove on trash, like in that movie Back to the future. You get rid of your trash and you have cheap fuel. I guess that's something for the movies, although you never know, with all the stuff they invent these days...

They are getting better at it like hydrogen fuel cars, by product is H2O. Electric is also getting better with longer running batteries but still fall short on distance. Mix both of them right now would be one answer.